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Nick | Nick \Nick\, n. [Akin to {Nock}.] 1. A notch cut into something; as: (a) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning. [Obs.] (b) (Print.) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution. --W. Savage. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; as, nicks in a china plate; a nick in the table top. [1913 Webster] 3. A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment. [1913 Webster] To cut it off in the very nick. --Howell. [1913 Webster] This nick of time is the critical occasion for the gaining of a point. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster] |
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